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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.cais.com!news From: Eric Vought <adfh@ids2.idsonline.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:16:30 -0500 Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3160B82E.7A888907@ids2.idsonline.com> References: <4j6msk$ho@darkstar.my.lan> <DovMp4.765@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <stephenkDp5xr1.69v@netcom.com> <4joi3n$bvb@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip158.idsonline.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14068 comp.os.linux.development.system:20582 comp.os.linux.x:28430 comp.os.linux.hardware:35291 comp.os.linux.setup:48801 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:429 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2961 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2729 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16566 > You still don't get it ... > > Linux is by no means a commercially usable product. It has too many That's an interesting theory... I'll be sure to mention it to my boss. I've been using Linux for development work (fielding applications on other platforms) for a while. I was under the impression that it was working well. > flaws to be of good use for businesses let alone ISPs. It is meant for Compare Windows for Work Groups. The development workstation I am currently using is a Pentium-90 with 64 MB of RAM. It ran so badly (slow and *very* unstable) under Windows for Workgroups that it was relegated to running Microsoft Word and editing e-mail. I wiped the drive and installed Redhat Linux 2.1. Instant upgrade! Now its running as the primary development workstation of the project. It's been up for the last 34 days straight and hasn't crashed in the last three months. Its performance is superb. I can often compile a piece of source code faster on Pandora than on the SPARC-20 across from it. My boss has considered upgrading other machines. I do much of my work out of my home anyway, using a 486DX/2 16MB running Redhat 2.1. Software developed on these two machines is then deployed on the Solaris machines being used by in-house analysts.